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 joy’d to meet again, after uch ill Treatment from the Winds and Seas.

After the Storm, Low got afe to a mall Iland, one of the Weathermot of the Caribbees, and there fitted their Veels, as well as the Place could afford; they got Proviions of the Natives, in exchange for Goods of their own; and as oon as the Brigantine was ready, ’twas judg’d neceary to take a hort Cruize, and leave the Scooner in the Harbour till her Return. The Brigantine ail’d out accordingly, and had not been out many Days before they met a Ship at Sea, that had lot all her Mats; on Board of whom they went, and took from her in Money and Goods, to the Value of 1000 l. and o left her in the Condition they found her: This Ship was bound home from Barbadoes, but loing her Mats in the late Storm, was making for Antegoa, to refit, where he afterwards arriv’d.

The Storm jut poken of, was found to have done incredible Damage in thoe Parts of the World; but however, it appear’d to have been more violent at Jamaica, both to the Iland and Shipping, there was uch a prodigious Swell of the Sea, that everal hundred Tuns of Stones and Rocks, were thrown over the Wall of the Town of Port Royal, and the Town it elf was overflowed, and above half detroy’d, there being the next Morning five Foot Water from one End to the other; the Cannon of Fort Charles were dimounted, and ome wahed into the Sea, and four hundred People lot their Lives; a more melancholly Sight was carce ever een when the Water ebb’d away, all the Streets being covered with Ruins of Houes, Wrecks of Veels, and a great Number of dead Bodies, for forty Sail of Ships, in the Harbour, were cat away.